Smoothing-tool.



Patented Feb. 23, 1909..

ATTORNEY C. R. UEBELMESSER.

SMOOTHING TOOL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES R. UEBELMESSER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SMOOTHING-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Original application filed October 4, 1907, Serial No. 395,842. Divided and this application filed January 4, 1908. Serial No. 409,357.

To at! whom lit may concern:

Be 1t known that I, CHARLES It. UnBnL- MESSER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovements in Smoothing-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a smoothing tool which is particularly adapted for repairing suoli films as are Viised with moving picture machines in conjunction with a device which I have invented for this purpose and which I have disclosed in another application for Letters Patent Serial Number 395,842 and which was filed October 4th, 1907. The subject-matter of the present application was disclosed in said application Serial Number 395,942 and is now divided from said prior application as separately described and claimed herein.

Referring `to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a smoothing tool or tile which is made according to in v invention. Fig. is a front elevation of this tool, and Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of thc same tool, the section being taken, in the lattergure, through the line 3M?) of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a front elevation and sectional end view of my improved tool but made according to another construction. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a clamping piece used in the form of my tool which is shown in Fig. 4.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

designates a frame which forms a substantially rectangular flat body having a desired width. Across the upper portion of this frame is a slot 11 and across the lower portion of the frame is a similar slot 12. These slots are parallel with each other and run transversely across and are centrally disposed in relation to the longitudinal axis of the frame. A handle 13 is attached to the lower portion of the frame and may be an integral part thereof as shown.

14 designates a clamping piece which is secured to the frame 10 at the back thereof by means of a thumb-screw 15. A piece of sandpaper 16 of a widthslightly less than the length of the slots 11 and 12 may be placed over the flat body portion of the frame with its ends passed through the slots i and under the clamping piece 14 as is shown i at 17 in Fig. 3. The clamping piece may be then tightened down against the ends of the sandpaper by the thumb-screw and thus fastened securely to the frame..

In the construction shown in Fig. 4 the frame 10A and the handle 13A are stamped out of a single piece of sheet metal the longitudinal edges of which are bent under as shown at 18. This construction forms grooves at the back of the frame along its sides into which a pair of clamping pleces 14A are slipped. Each of these clamping pieces is provided with a depressed portion 19 which engages. with the sandpaper or einery cloth and holds it securely in place.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a tool which shall have a flat tiling surface of considerable width but somewhat less than the width of the tool itself. Such a tool may be used between guiding members situated outside of the article or material which is to be smoothed thereby Without bringing its tiling surface in contact with such guiding members. This is illus- (rated in the operation or use of the device which is disclosed in the companion application Serial Number 395,482. Obviously this tool may be used in other Ways and for other purposes and a very broad smoothing surface of any desired form may be obtained by the construction and in the manner which I have herein described.

Vhat I claim is:-

1. A smoothing tool comprising a flat rectangular frame provided with a pair of slots, a piece of flexible abrading material of less width than that of the frame extending across the front surface of the frame and passing through the slots, and means connected with the back of the frame for holding said flexible material to the frame.

2. A smoothing tool comprising a flat rectangular frame provided with a pair of slots, a piece of flexible abrading material of less width than that of the frame across the front surface of the frame and extending through the slots, and a clamping piece secured to the back of the frame and arranged to hold said flexible material to the frame.

3. A smoothing tool comprising a flat rectangular frame provided with a pair of transversely disposed parallel slots, a ieee of sandpaper of less width than that o the frame across the front surface of the frame name to this specification in the piesence of and extending through the slots, a clamping two subscribing Witnesses. piece a thumb-screw connecting the clamping niece With the frame and arranged to CHARLES R UEBELMESSER 5 hold the sandpaper to the frame, and a Witnesses:

handle extending from the frame. FRANK B. WOOD,

In testimony whereof I have signed my ELLA TUCH. 

